Welcome to the

BAY AREA
FOOTBAG
LEAGUE

Berkeley, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Francisco,
Santa Cruz, San Jose, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, Sunnyvale

Introduction

Hello! Welcome to the home page of the Bay Area Footbag League! The Bay Area Footbag League is a group of about 50 players throughout the extended San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to promoting the alternative sport of footbag. (We have a special Santa Cruz Chapter with its own home page.)

The Bay Area Footbag League works in conjunction with its sister organization BAFF, Inc. to put on various tournaments and events throughout the year.

BAFL co-hosts the Western Regional Footbag Championships with the Stanford University Footbag Club, and hosted the World Footbag Championships for two years in a row (in '94 and '95).

BAFL Weekly Kicking Schedule

BAFL is probably the largest footbag club in the world, as is evidenced by the outstanding number of organized and informal kicking opportunities it provides for its members. The on-line BAFL KICKING SCHEDULE has a list of the regular BAFL kicks every week in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Feel free to attend any BAFL kick, regardless of your skill level or experience. We are here to teach and help the sport grow by giving everyone a chance to enjoy footbag at all levels. Come to any and all of our scheduled kicks and be sure to introduce yourself the first time you come out.

You can count on our kicking schedule, especially if you follow the directions for calling to double-check any given kick. But, without fail there is always the following weekly kick, and all are invited:

Golden Gate Park (San Francisco)

SUNDAYS, 1-5pm, on JFK Drive within the Park, approximately one block west of Stanyan St.. (The meadow is called "Peacock Meadow", although the name of the meadow is not on any maps. Find the Conservatory of Flowers, and we are in the next meadow east along JFK Drive.)

NOTE: Because of El Niño, the field at Peacock Meadow has been flooded several times. If you go to Peacock Meadow and nobody is there -- go to Hippie Hill! We are probably just a few hundred feet to the south, across the street and over the hill. You can't see Hippie Hill from Peacock Meadow, but it's very close. Go due south from Peacock Meadow, following one of several paths that take you over or around a small wooded hill just alongside the tennis courts, and you end up at Hippie Hill. This spot is located between JFK and Kezar Dr. just west of Stanyan St. inside the park. If you get lost, ask for the Carousel; Hippie Hill is visible from there.

Contact Information

Bay Area Footbag League
567 Alberta Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94087

Phone: (408) 773-9110, (415) 968-6846, (510) 525-9178
E-mail: info@footbag.org

More Info On BAFL

BAFL membership includes some of the best players in the world of footbag. Here are just a few of the professional footbag players in BAFL:

Julie Symons (jsymons@cup.hp.com) - one of the top women players in footbag, Julie is a regular at almost all BAFL kicks (both net and freestyle). She was the '94 women's overall world footbag champion.

Peter Irish - 1995 World Freestyle Champion (as well as 1991, 1992, and 1993) and member of the Big-Add Posse, Pete recently moved to the Bay Area from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He's a regular at the Sunday freestyle jam in Golden Gate Park, and you may even be able to get him on the net court once in a while.

Lisa McDaniel (tao@dnai.com) - another of the top women players in the sport, Lisa has many singles and doubles titles under her belt, in both net and freestyle.

Brent Welch (brent.welch@eng.sun.com) - an avid footbag net player and skilled competitor, Brent and his partner Alf have been a serious force in footbag net, making it all the way to the finals in '95. Brent is always willing to take new players aside and show them the basics (as well as more advanced techniques).

Jody Welch (jbwelch@aol.com) - yes, there is a relation. Jody and Brent are a dynamic footbag duo, with many world mixed doubles net titles to prove it. Jody is 5-time women's overall world footbag champion -- one of the major forces to reckon with in professional footbag net.

Alf Marcussen (alfandalf@aol.com) - a soccer player turned footbag professional, Alf moved to San Francisco from Norway several years ago. He is fun to watch on the net court, and is a great teacher of up-and-coming players.

Sam Conlon - one of the top personalities in the sport, Sam has dazzled audiences on television around the world with her amazing freestyle skill and finesse. A regular at the Sunday freestyle jams in Golden Gate Park, Sam has more women's freestyle world titles than anyone else.

Tim Kelly - clearly one of the top freestylers, and a member of the Big-Add Posse, Tim frequently appears at the Sunday freestyle jam in Golden Gate Park.

Byron Proshold (Byron.Proshold@wj.com) - one of the Bay Area's up-and-coming net players, Byron won the '94 intermediate title in singles net, and is a regular at the net games in Mountain View.

We welcome any comments, suggestions, or offers of help in promoting the new sport of footbag.

Electronic Mailing List

If you'd like to join our electronic mailing list, to find out about important happenings in the footbag scene, read the information about our Majordomo server.

Paper Mailing List

BAFL maintains a mailing list of players in the San Francisco Bay Area, and publishes a newsletter with a calendar of weekly footbag events and practices all around the Bay Area. (There are currently more than 3 organized "kicks" per week in the Bay Area.) To get on this list, fill out our MAILING LIST FORM.

If you don't have a forms-capable browser, just send your full name, address, telephone number, with zip code and area codes, to:

brat@footbag.org

We guarantee that we will not sell or give your name or address to any organization for any purpose, and will only use it for mailing you periodic information about footbag happenings.

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